Hi All,

I haven't read through all the posts yet, so forgive me if this has been
recently asked...

My wife is going to be running some powerpoints for song lyrics at a church
women's conference. We were just informed that the computer at the
conference center is a MAC, we don't know what OS version, but we do know it
is at least 3 years or more older. What I need to find out is, can she run
the MS powerpoints on the MAC without any problem, or do we need to buy a
conversion program, or what?? Our church has 20 years of songs on powerpoint
and we really don't want to type them all in if we can help it.

Thanks in advance for the answers.

Wayne

"Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP" <abuse[at]localhost.com> wrote in message
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> > My wife is going to be running some powerpoints for song lyrics at a
> church
> > women's conference. We were just informed that the computer at the
> > conference center is a MAC, we don't know what OS version, but we do
know
> it
> > is at least 3 years or more older. What I need to find out is, can she
run
> > the MS powerpoints on the MAC without any problem, or do we need to buy
a
> > conversion program, or what??
>
> It'd be a good idea to find out what model Mac, how much available RAM and
> disk space it has, what operating system it runs and whether or not
> PowerPoint is installed (and if so, what version).
>
> Next, what version of PowerPoint do you use (I'm assuming Windows, is that
> right?) and what's in your presentation? Do you use XP and make heavy use
> of its animation features? Or are you turning out fairly basic
> presentations on PPT 97?
>
> It may be that the free Mac viewer will handle your presentations:
>
> Free PowerPoint Viewers (where to download them)
> http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00153.htm
>
PowerPoint is not installed on the MAC it's running OS 8.6. The PPTs are
being created on Windows 98 with Office 2000 and all the slides are, are
just words on a standard powerpoint slide, no animation at all. I'll go
check out the free viewers and see if one of those will work.

Thanks for the help

Wayne

> > Free PowerPoint Viewers (where to download them)
> > http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00153.htm
> >
> PowerPoint is not installed on the MAC it's running OS 8.6. The PPTs are
> being created on Windows 98 with Office 2000 and all the slides are, are
> just words on a standard powerpoint slide, no animation at all. I'll go
> check out the free viewers and see if one of those will work.

You should be good to go, Wayne.

Offhand, the only things in PPT2000 you'll want to avoid are animated GIFs,
pictures as bullets and links applied to shapes within groups. These work
in 2000 but not in the viewers.

Powerpoint can also output each slide as a jpeg "picture".
(It puts all of the slides into a single folder with filenames
having consecutive numbers.)
From there, you can use any of 100 "slide-show" viewing programs
to do the trick. Often you can "drag-and-drop" the folder onto
the icon of a slide-show-viewing program and it'll open
all of the images. From there, it's standard that the arrow keys
will control the slide-show.

M. Katz